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Originally Posted by Sam Mac
Hope you have enough room to fit a set of 2" gauges in the tower. I made that mistake on my first 2182 and had to fab up a panel to replace the area where the idiot lights go. It was a major PITA. That's why I now use 1-1/2" gauges. The 1-1/2" gauges fit nice just above the boot for the tilt steering. I've sent you pics on how I did it. Here is a pic of my first 2182 with electric gauges. For whatever it's worth I used marine gauges and senders that I got from Summit Racing. The black panel was made from a piece of 1/4" Lexan painted black on the back side.
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I wondered why that picture looked different. These will just fit under the lip of metal on the backside. I had a hard time finding them with electric sensors but really wanted 1-1/2". I have the one gauge in but the other two are coming from a different vendor so I'm going to wait until they come in to drill those holes.
I forgot that I did run a 1/8" NPT pipe tap through the thermostat housing first. The new sensor was going in a little hard and it looked like the old sensor had threads that were a little shallow. The tap took off just a hair. I could twist it in by hand except for about the last 2 turns I put a handle on it. Then the new sensor went in fine. I have no idea what kind of threads would have the same per inch as 1/8" npt but be shallow, but oh well. It tightened up just fine.
Dammit....I keep forgetting to turn my phone sideways when taking pictures otherwise they don't posts right on here...my bad. (fixed it, you owe me, Sam Mac)